This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo shows a narrow footpath snaking along the contour of a hillside in Dorset. The gorse is in full bloom, and prickly as ever! But the sky is blue, and …
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Woodland Walk near Upwey This month, all the photographs in the series were taken in September, though not this year. My digital pictures go back to when I first bought a DSLR camera, and I like to share them.This image is from a small woodland we walked in 2011 while visiting Dorset to explore the …
Continue reading #ScenicSaturday 17/Sep/22
Dorset, May 2013. Spring has yet to reach this lone tree on a Dorset hillside. The picture was taken in May 2013. Can it be that climate change has moved spring so much earlier over such a short period? All the pictures in this month’s series were taken in May, but during different years. Are …
Continue reading #Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 23/May/22
Porlock on a May Day. The small seaside town of Porlock sits on a dip in the coast of Dorset. Moorland rises on either side. The sea forms a wide, shallow bay with a beach. It’s a quiet place, or it was when we visited midweek in early May some years ago. It’s one of …
Continue reading #Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 11/May/22
Thatched cottages overlooking the sea with an English spring sky above. What more could you possibly want? +++++++++++++++++ We live among natural wonders. Some people ignore and others actively dislike such beauty, even working to destroy the only world we can inhabit.These daily posts are my encouragement of joy in nature, hoping to inspire you …
Continue reading #Words and #PictureOfTheDay: 07/Apr/22
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A narrow tracks weaves through spring trees in the Forest of Dean. ‘No longer the round shoulders and stooping walk, no longer the shuffle of shame. She was upright and open.’Stuart Aken, Breaking Faith. This is the final post in the series of photographs from our local forest walks. I’ve posted almost 1,000 of my …
Continue reading Today’s Pictures: 30 Apr 21
Quiet stream ‘They won’t have me back because I walked out, there and then, of course.’Stuart Aken, Breaking Faith. This series of photographs from our local forest will finish at the end of April, by which time I’ll have posted almost 1,000 of my pictures in this series. For the last few days, I’m adding …
Continue reading Today’s Pictures: 27 Apr 21
A circle of stones around a hearth in the forest. ‘I am thy father’s spirit:Doomed for a certain time to walk the night.’William Shakespeare, Hamlet Daily photographs from our local forest will continue here until the end of April. I’m adding another from my collection to show more of the world and its wonders. I’ll …
Continue reading Today’s Pictures: 22 Apr 21
A fast flowing stream in the forest. ‘As for myself, I walk abroad o’ nightsAnd kill sick people groaning under walls:’Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta Daily photographs from our local forest will continue here until the end of April. I’m adding another from my collection to show more of the world and its wonders. …
Continue reading Today’s Pictures: 16 Apr 21
A horse rider in the forest. ‘Not to go back, is somewhat to advance,And men must walk at least before they dance.’Alexander Pope. Daily shots from our walks in the local forest will continue here for a little while longer. And I’m adding another from my collection of pictures to show more of the world …
Continue reading Today’s Pictures: 9 Apr 21
Afternoon sunshine ‘For a week they lazed and loved, swam in the hotel pool, ate in restaurants, took in Virtual shows, walked, danced, drank together.’Stuart Aken, The Methuselah Strain Daily shots from our walks in the local forest will continue here for a little while longer. And I’ll add another from my collection of pictures …
Continue reading Today’s Pictures: 8 Apr 21
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